Barolsky Advisors

Barolsky Advisors

Welcome to Barolsky Advisors, a leading management consulting firm with a deep understanding of the culture and complexities of professional service organisations, in particular law, accounting, engineering and business advisory firms.

We focus on strategy and strategy implementation. We do it through advice, analysis, education and facilitation.

Feel free to explore our website. It covers what we do, who we are, recent articles, keynote topics, testimonials and contact information.
Joel Barolsky
Founder and Managing Director of Barolsky Advisors
Senior Fellow of The University of Melbourne
30 years as a strategy advisor and management consultant to professional service firms
Op-ed writer for the Australian Financial Review Legal Affairs section
16 years as head of Beaton Research & Consulting's strategy practice
Lead author of Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor Melbourne Law School State of the Australian Legal Market Report
Author of the Relationship Capital blog
Advisory Board member of the Australian Centre for Legal Innovation
Creator of the Price High or Low smartphone app
Foundation member of the Australian Legal Technology Association
Teaching Fellow on the College of Law's Master of Legal Business Management program
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Joel has been a Senior Fellow of Melbourne Law School for over 15 years
What's new
Services and seminars

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From the Managing Partners Forum, February 2019
New pricing app
Grow Without Boundaries
Implementing Heidi Gardner's approach to smart collaboration
In the media and on the speaker's circuit
Presenter and exhibitor at the ALTACON LegalTech Expo on 31 May 2019
Op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, 4 April 2019
Op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, 1 March 2019
Op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, 1 February 2019
Speaking at the 2019 Managing Partners Forum, Sanctuary Cove (hosted by Chilli IQ)
Co-author of the 2018 Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor Report into the Australian Legal market
Article published in Law Council's Law Management Hub, 27 November 2018
Quoted in The Australian's Legal Review, 26 October 2018
Op-ed on the rocket model in the Australian Financial Review, 14 September 2018
ALPMA guest blog on smart collaboration, 27 August 2018
Op-ed on EY's acquisition of Riverview Law in Lawyers Weekly, 24 August 2018
Article on pricing published in the August-September 2018 edition of ACUITY
Op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, 6 July 2018
Article published in Law Council of Australia's Management Hub, 27 June 2018
Op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, 23 June 2018
Quoted in the Australian Financial Review, 1 May 2018
Article on law firm value chain published in ALPMA's Survival Guide blog, 16 April 2018
Article published in Law Council's Law Management Hub, 18 February 2018
Quoted in the Australian Financial Review, 9 February 2018
Article on Big 4 in law reposted on the Remaking Law Firms blog, Dialogue, January 2018
Guest blogger on the Business of Trust platform, 14 March 2018
Guest blogger on the FilePro platform, 26 March 2018
Presenting the "Management for Professionals" subject at the Melbourne University Law School in October 2018
Keynote speaker at the 2018 Managing Partners Forum in Byron Bay, 23-24 February 2018
Invited to be keynote speaker at the LawLink Conference in New Zealand on 4-5 May 2018
Invited to present an ALPMA seminar in Perth on 8 May 2108
Invited to be the panel moderator at the International Bar Association (IBA) Law Firm Management Committee meeting in Sydney on 8 October 2017
Op-ed in The Australian, 20 October 2017
Op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, June 2017
Invited to be a speaker at the 2017 ALPMA Summit in September 2017 in Brisbane
Invited to be a speaker at the ADVOC Conference in August 2017 in Kuala Lumpur
Presenting an APSMA ICON seminar on strategy in Singapore in August 2017, hosted by Clyde & Co
Keynote speaker at the 2017 Managing Partners Forum at Byron Bay
ALMPA guest blog post, July 2017
Article reposted on the Remaking Law Firms blog, Dialogue, July 2017
Article on board governance in CPA Australia’s IN THE BLACK magazine, May 2017 edition
Article on the blockchain in the ACC’s Australian Corporate Lawyer magazine, Autumn 2017 edition
Comments published on 2017 Harvard Business Review article on collaboration
2017 blog article published in Remaking Law Firms platform
2016 quote in Lawyers Weekly, and again, and again, and again
2016 quote in The Australian Financial Review and again
Speaker at the Managing Partners Forum in August 2016
Featured in Hall & Wilcox Smarter Law strategy launch
Quoted in Westpac Business Focus March 2016
Presented at the 2016 Beca Global Leadership Conference and published article with Jon Huxley in Ignite
Launch of MBA IN A DAY public seminar program
Increasing global reach of the Relationship Capital blog - listed 6th on a global Google search on the term “relationship capital”
Lead author of the 2015 Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor Report into the Australian Legal market
2015 press mentions in The Australian Financial Review and Lawyers Weekly
Speaker at the Institute of Patent and Trademark Attorneys Australia (IPTA) Conference in April 2015
Chair of the 9th LawTech Summit and Awards
Keynote speaker at the Intellectual Property Society of ANZ conference
Quoted extensively in a new book exploring trends in the legal industry
Article on “Top Ten Tips to Differentiate Your Firm” published in PSF Journal

Barolsky Advisors

Joel Barolsky

Joel has been a Senior Fellow of Melbourne Law School for over 15 years

What's new

Services and seminars

Click here to read

Click here to read on AFR site and here on LinkedIn

Click here to read

Click here to read

From the Managing Partners Forum, February 2019

New pricing app

Grow Without Boundaries

Implementing Heidi Gardner's approach to smart collaboration

In the media and on the speaker's circuit